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VOL. I April 1888 No.VI
THE VOLANTE.
Published monthly by the Students' Association of the University of Dakota.
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BOARD OF EDITORS:
H. S. Houston, '88; Agnes L. True,'89; C. E. Weed, '89;
W.J. Simons, '89; Fannie Ayres '91; W.F. Davis, '91.
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BOARD OF MANAGERS
E.D. Hawkins, '91; Florence E. Smith, '91; A. A. Boyton, '91.
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HERBERT S. HOUSTON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
A. ALBERT BOYTON, BUSINESS MANAGER.
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Terms, $1.00 per year. Single copies, 15 cents.
Entered at the Post-office at Vermillin, Dakota as second-class mail matter.
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SANCTUM
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The government of colleges, like the
government of states, has been continually growing
more liberal. The privileges granted the
governed, in both, have been increasing. Prior to
and during the first quarter of the present
century, the leading colleges of the country,
prescribed rules regulating the conduct of students,
in all their relations with the college and with
their fellows. But there has come a great change,
and the harsh and un-American regulations,
which characterized college governments in the
time of Jonathan Edwards and the saintly
Witherspoon, have been swept away. In their stead
the golden-rule is placed ; the student is looked
upon as a free-moral agent; the rule-regulated
boy is retired, the self-regulating man is
advanced. Results under the new regime have
been satisfactory. College communities have
never been as well-ordered, nor students as
self-respecting and manly, as to-day. There is but
one objection brought against the system and
that is, students entering a university, from
fitting-schools where they have been subjected to
rigorous discipline, are inclined to turn liberty
into license and abuse the privileges accorded
them. In some cases this is true, indeed, there
have been instances where colleges have been
compelled, in self-protection, to curtail student
privileges. But such instances are rare, only
the exceptions, in fact, which serve to establish
the wisdom of the rule.
In our own University, a large majority of
the students are capable of adjusting themselves
quickly to the new order of things; a few
however seem totally incapable of doing so: to
them schools differ only in degree, not in kind;
they evidently consider the University a big
district school without the accustomed rules. Such
students should at once come to the realization
of their manifest duty to their fellow-students,
to the University and to themselves, namely to
come up, from the piano of school-children, to
that of college men and women.
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Some of our enterprising students propose
taking an extended trip through the Southern
States the coming summer. They purpose
making the journey largely if not wholly by water;
the Missouri will be followed in its tortuous
windings to the "Father of Waters," this in turn will
float their little bark until the drooping magnolia
and sluggish bayou appear to remind the party
that the realm of King Yellow Jack has been
entered, then their course will be retraced to the
mouth of the Ohio, the Ohio followed to the
Tennessee, and this beautiful river sailed for
700 miles through the very Eden of the South.
The party is to be in charge of member of the
faculty and will have as its primary object the
obtaining of botanical, geological and zoological

Images from this collection may be downloaded for non-commercial educational and research purposes on the condition that The University of South Dakota, Archives and Special Collections is credited as the source. For permission to use a particular item for any other purpose, such as publishing, video production, exhibits, product presentations, interior design, or advertising, you must contact The University of South Dakota, Archives and Special Collections. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright.

VOL. I April 1888 No.VI
THE VOLANTE.
Published monthly by the Students' Association of the University of Dakota.
--------------------
BOARD OF EDITORS:
H. S. Houston, '88; Agnes L. True,'89; C. E. Weed, '89;
W.J. Simons, '89; Fannie Ayres '91; W.F. Davis, '91.
--------------------
BOARD OF MANAGERS
E.D. Hawkins, '91; Florence E. Smith, '91; A. A. Boyton, '91.
--------------------
HERBERT S. HOUSTON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
A. ALBERT BOYTON, BUSINESS MANAGER.
--------------------
Terms, $1.00 per year. Single copies, 15 cents.
Entered at the Post-office at Vermillin, Dakota as second-class mail matter.
--------------------
--------------------
SANCTUM
--------------------
The government of colleges, like the
government of states, has been continually growing
more liberal. The privileges granted the
governed, in both, have been increasing. Prior to
and during the first quarter of the present
century, the leading colleges of the country,
prescribed rules regulating the conduct of students,
in all their relations with the college and with
their fellows. But there has come a great change,
and the harsh and un-American regulations,
which characterized college governments in the
time of Jonathan Edwards and the saintly
Witherspoon, have been swept away. In their stead
the golden-rule is placed ; the student is looked
upon as a free-moral agent; the rule-regulated
boy is retired, the self-regulating man is
advanced. Results under the new regime have
been satisfactory. College communities have
never been as well-ordered, nor students as
self-respecting and manly, as to-day. There is but
one objection brought against the system and
that is, students entering a university, from
fitting-schools where they have been subjected to
rigorous discipline, are inclined to turn liberty
into license and abuse the privileges accorded
them. In some cases this is true, indeed, there
have been instances where colleges have been
compelled, in self-protection, to curtail student
privileges. But such instances are rare, only
the exceptions, in fact, which serve to establish
the wisdom of the rule.
In our own University, a large majority of
the students are capable of adjusting themselves
quickly to the new order of things; a few
however seem totally incapable of doing so: to
them schools differ only in degree, not in kind;
they evidently consider the University a big
district school without the accustomed rules. Such
students should at once come to the realization
of their manifest duty to their fellow-students,
to the University and to themselves, namely to
come up, from the piano of school-children, to
that of college men and women.
--------------------
Some of our enterprising students propose
taking an extended trip through the Southern
States the coming summer. They purpose
making the journey largely if not wholly by water;
the Missouri will be followed in its tortuous
windings to the "Father of Waters," this in turn will
float their little bark until the drooping magnolia
and sluggish bayou appear to remind the party
that the realm of King Yellow Jack has been
entered, then their course will be retraced to the
mouth of the Ohio, the Ohio followed to the
Tennessee, and this beautiful river sailed for
700 miles through the very Eden of the South.
The party is to be in charge of member of the
faculty and will have as its primary object the
obtaining of botanical, geological and zoological

Images from this collection may be downloaded for non-commercial educational and research purposes on the condition that The University of South Dakota, Archives and Special Collections is credited as the source. For permission to use a particular item for any other purpose, such as publishing, video production, exhibits, product presentations, interior design, or advertising, you must contact The University of South Dakota, Archives and Special Collections. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright.